Category Archives: Book Review

Avoiding Good Decisions and other Vacation Goals

Posted on June 19, 2013 by matthew

Wendy Dale is looking for love in all the wrong places. Travel Book Review: Avoiding Prison & Other Noble Vacation Goals by Wendy Dale Continue reading →

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Lion Attacks and Safaris

Posted on August 10, 2012 by matthew

Travel Book Review: Man Eaters Motel (and other stops on the railway to nowhere: an East African Traveler’s Nightbook) by Denis Boyles (1991) Continue reading →

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I may understand when I am a middle-aged woman

Posted on July 17, 2012 by matthew

Targeted at middle-aged women, this is a pleasant, but not remarkable, memoir of a single woman traveling in Europe. Travel book review of Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach. Continue reading →

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Too much about the tropics?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by matthew

Travel book review: Tales from The Torrid Zone. Some interesting stories plopped into a book that’s just too long. Continue reading →

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Book Review: Hiding Alongside the Andes

Posted on January 17, 2012 by matthew

Travel Book Review: Sara Wheeler delivers a great travel book in Travels in a Thin Country, a story of her journey through Chile Continue reading →

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Book Review: Unappealing Mexico City

Posted on December 29, 2011 by matthew

Book Review of First Stop in the New World by David Lida, a travel book which makes Mexico City seem, in his own words, like a “walking disaster.” Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Tourist Free Coast

Posted on April 18, 2011 by matthew

When winter rolls in, the pace of the coast slows as the summer tourists leave the beaches, the ice chokes the harbors, and the towns are left for those who enjoy the solitude. Matthew Stone reviews Off Season, a travel book by Ken McAlpine. Continue reading →

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Book Review: China Before Steroids

Posted on April 8, 2011 by matthew

A book review of Colin Thubron’s Behind the Wall, a traveler’s journey through mid-1980’s China (before Shanghai looked like Chicago on steroids). Continue reading →

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Bill Bryson is funny

Posted on February 1, 2011 by matthew

Bill Bryson hits the spot with Notes From a Small Island, one of the top travel books of all time. Continue reading →

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Back in Time Book Review

Posted on December 30, 2010 by matthew

Travel Writer Matthew Stone revisits a 1955 travel book, Herbert Kubly’s American in Italy in a book review, and finds out that some things never change. Continue reading →

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